Four games into a long and often volatile season, there are questions that every NFL team — the good ones and the bad ones, the experienced groups and the youngest teams — still must answer.

When it’s Oct. 1 and one of those questions is, “Will you even win a single game?” there’s a problem.

The Browns have problems. Lots of them. That particular question, though, is a valid one after the previously winless Bengals thumped the Browns on Sunday, 31-7, at FirstEnergy Stadium. It wasn’t that close, it wasn’t easy to watch and it was over pretty early — not long after Kenny Britt’s dropped pass inside the Bengals’ 10-yard line that became an interception, in fact.

Like so many times before, and not just against the Bengals, the Browns were outclassed, outmanned and overwhelmed. Hue Jackson, now 1-19 in a season and a quarter of another on the job, conceded afterward that the Browns had taken a step backward.